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Ask HN: What Uses ThreadHideFromDebugger/Thread_create_flags_hide_from_debugger?
Windows supports calling NtSetInformationThread with ThreadHideFromDebugger as an argument, and calling NtCreateThreadEx with THREAD_CREATE_FLAGS_HIDE_FROM_DEBUGGER as an argument. Doing either of those things will, as the name suggests, hide that thread from the debugger. Obviously, these are incredibly useful for malware authors to inhibit reverse engineering by security researchers. Is there any legitimate use for these during actual debugging, though? If so, what are they? If not, why would Microsoft give Windows a feature only useful to malware?
The golang runtime has a penalty due to the fact that it sets up memory for GC at startup. It is legitimately C runtime vs. go runtime.
Love it! Definitely inspired by the time spent digging through layers of half-assed abstractions!
I'm not sure moderation is that much better. Some moderators strive to be fair but the majority will still vote and moderate based on preferences. There's also the quantity issue, most low-value comments don't break any rules but also aren't very insightful.
Billionaires do this - Zuckerberg did the same.
It's a function, it's just been transformed into a function with a different return type (that of a generator or coroutine, you can see the type signatures here [1]). You could do something similar in vanilla Python rather than language-level sugar, eg using decorators.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Generat...

As a caveat, I point out the type signature for academic interest, I prefer to use the simpler Iterable and Awaitable types in type signatures.
Most (all?) states in the U.S. require state licenses to practice, and you can't get much more regulatory than that, so yes, I count that.

There have been a few different reports put out about the current situation and how vets are being bought out. The article here is one of them. Is your theory that they aren't actually buying vets, or that they aren't raising prices, or that what they're doing is irrelevant to the current problems?

I know in my town and from my personal experience over the last two years dealing with five different vet practices, one of which is a local VCA branch and also one associated withe the local humane society, all the reports ring startingly true. VCA is extremely expensive compared to all other vets, but is also the only emergency location in the area. If we go in and it's not an emergency it's about 40% more than other vets. If it is an emergency it's much more, but at least there's a plausible reason in that case.

That said, there are more pets. Our local humane society is at well over double capacity for animals that are mostly aged suspiciously close to the beginning of covid. Multiple things can be happening at the same time though. Why do you think VC decided now to get into animal health care?
> The actual definition of extraterrestrial life is life that did not originate on earth.

While I would not consider something that evolved on a space station around Earth as extraterrestrial, this seems a bit restrictive. This would rule out any life evolving from Earth material on Mars brought by a rover as extraterrestrial even million years later. Also, if we discovered life came from an asteroid, we might have to consider ourselves as extraterrestrial with such a definition.

(though I would not know how to define the word)
Yes. Turning off is exactly what I want.
Yeah. But Mullvad VPN, based in Sweden, is an actual good one.
And the alternative is to have managers who do nothing but rearrange the chairs in the company. Which doesn't even achieve good uptime or code cleanup, plus, in the case that your company does find something to do, those engineers CAN do it. The managers can't.
Expeacting a lawful corporation to shield you from the law is absurd. The state has the right to obtain this information - so, if you want it hidden, you need to find a provider that doesn't operate under the bounds of the law. You'll soon find out that A LOT of niceties go away once you're not dealing with legal matters: you can't guarantee that you'll get the service you payed for, you can't re-gain access if you lost your main security, etc.
So the guy writing the book wanted Lolita to be a lot hornier?
Pokemon Go Players Are Vandalizing Maps with Fake Data to Catch Rare Pokemon
There was Arab nationalism that was allied to Hitler, no even talking about the persecution before. Why do you think Jews fought for independence?
Haha, fair.

The literal palm pilots seemed to pre-date these wifi cards.

A Palm Pilot Pro only took a triple a battery and a 1 MB memory card. Sleds came later iirc
E-scooter related dental injuries
I keep hearing Raspberry Pi guy’s complain about how Google Search is “dying”, but I don’t see regular people using anything else.
Did you use a different device and phone number or friend a mutual friend/yourself or allow contact access? That hasn't been my experience having 2 Meta accounts
> Just look at that ridiculous discussion about green text vs. blue text while messaging. People still use that as a marker for being cool vs. non cool in certain circles.

Only in the US. People are much more susceptible to corporate messaging here.
Years ago there was a Dutch notary who transferred about a million euros from his escrow account to someone pretending to be the Dutch prime on MSN Messenger. The email address was "ThePrimeMinister@hotmail.com" or something like that. They had a long story about national security and urgent need to access the funds and whatnot.

There were a lot of suspicions that he might be in on the scam, but as near as anyone could determine, he really was just scam victim. He did get disbarred and got a prison sentence of a year or so (IIRC) because while a victim, he also could and should have known better as a notary dealing with an escrow account.
Tools like this seem like a great way to manage breaking changes if done right. Far too often, frequently with JavaScript, I'll find myself with a project whose dependencies are 2-3 major versions out of date, and the documentation of these versions' breaking changes is of course very poor and lacking in sufficiently detailed examples.
Certificate of Need laws are absolutely anti-competitive. The Wikipedia article has a pretty good summary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need?wprov=sfla...
So people can actually have some control over the device they OWN.
Discussion [0] (93 points, 6 days ago, 32 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40219472
Hilarious anecdote about this website: the owner once said there are tons of entries in the usage log of people misunderstanding the purpose of the website and inputting celebrities names to try to email them. :D
"Remains your property" is not fluff at all, and explicitly disclaims any ownership of rights associated with content you post,

I think that should not be necessary to do explicitly because it is the default state. At any rate it is weird to talk about IP assignment in the very same paragraph as licensing.
I expect Apple to figure out how to provide apps with such a timer in a way that also prevents them from having access to the system uptime.
> Here in Oklahoma, insurance rates have skyrocketed in the last couple years.

I thought this was only a problem in CA or FL. I wonder if this is nationwide or specific to states with disaster prone areas.
I'm surprised some people think this is a matter of checking whether formal sentences match some English sentences lol
It is a matter of checking whether formal sentences match mathematical statements, which are written in natural language.

Imagine someone saying "just write good English lol eventually you can do good math". I'm aware you're not quite saying this but you seem really distracted by the human language representation of math, connecting doing math proofs to generating English sentences from some probability distribution is ridiculous. Of course it is possible LLMs can do math, if it's matter of having nonzero chance, there's also a nonzero chance we are all brains in vats. More rationally if someone says something is possible they should produce some evidence that it is possible. And then we decide whether that evidence is good enough.

Writing well in any human language is not good enough, since it is entirely different from being able to tell whether a set of formal axioms capture certain ideas about a mathematical structure. This is a model theoretic issue. Neural network theorem provers deal with proof theoretic issue.

The best LLM-Lean provers right now are tackling the very challenging problem of how to generate the right sequence of tactics for infinite search space, all relying on, excuse me, undergrad students to formalize proofs and statements for them.
Could be worse. Urine is sterile, so nobody will die or explode following this advice.
"Reactionary Pseudoscience": Cybernetics in the Soviet Union
If you mean a browser tab CTRL+W is a much 'shorter' shortcut.
If I understand correctly, cow hides are largely a by-product of beef production, and reducing leather use would not have an effect on animal suffering.

Apple stopped using leather and was criticised for environmental damage at least in the short-to-medium term (underutilisation of existing materials, new demand for plastics and synthetics).
Article title: Cybernetics in the Soviet Union
The chances of SpaceX failing in an irrecoverable way are zero. In some sort of crazy black swan event, a public offering of stock/equity would easily bring in vast sums for them. They even managed to get through COVID unscathed. The main danger of relying on a single provider is them taking advantage of that position and charging unreasonable rates, exactly like Boeing/Lockheed have been doing for decades (two companies, exact same issues - go figure). But SpaceX is ideologically motivated and minimizing the costs of spaceflight, as they have now been doing for decades, is a fundamental part of their goal. To use an obvious example, we didn't build out two identical Apollo programs.

Space is orders of magnitude more complex than air flight, and Boeing is now left struggling even with the latter. China has a highly advanced space program and have successfully launched/manned their own space station, and much more. Yet even they are technologically far behind SpaceX - the same is true of Russia. I don't actually understand why this is, as it's not like SpaceX is relying on any sort of just extremely well guarded secrets, but whatever the reason, it is what it is. And so with this context, I don't think there's any realistic chance of Boeing "getting its act together" anytime in the foreseeable future. So it turns these gestures into little more than lighting tens of billions of dollars on fire. And that's a pretty big fire.
Seems like a pretty human thing to do, or at least something I (a human I think) have done. Type a bunch of sentences about a couple nouns and occasionally your brain types the other one as you're thinking ahead!

Certainly, I try to catch my own mistakes like this, but we've had years of hastily written online articles with typos/mistakes like this, that were fed right in to the various "AIs".
> housing is incredibly overpriced in much of the world

Can we please stop this on HN? No, it isn't -- "much of the world". It is overpriced in tiny areas (with incredibly vibrant local economies) of very wealthy countries. Even if you leave Paris, 25+km outside of the city, the property is suddenly reasonably priced. Same for Berlin. (Forget London!) Same for Tokyo. Same for Milan. Also, mostly we have our parents' generation to blame for outrageous house prices in these tiny areas -- they consistently supported and voted for NIMBY-friendly policies. The solution is "simple", but, politically, very difficult to implement: Make housing a human right, not a casino.
I guess it shows that no matter how objectively successful you are, your skin can still be see-through thin.
That doesn’t sound like a thing Chomsky would do. I could imagine him saying that certain tactics were effective or certain aspects of their politics were notable, but I don’t see him as someone who idolizes anyone.

Do you have a source for this? To me this sounds like a misunderstanding, but I’m open to being shown otherwise.
https://archive.ph/QDrt6
Yes, that is doable through a very simple Lua-based row-level transformation. :) Here is an example transformation that adds an additional field: https://github.com/PeerDB-io/examples/blob/main/usdcad.lua . More details on row-level transformations are planned to be released later this week. :)
Urine is not sterile [0], but it probably won't hurt you either.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25766599/
https://github.com/baweaver/refactor#why-not-rubocop

Deflects the obvious without a cogent explanation because Rubocop's S-expressions are sufficiently powerful and general, already work, and don't require reinventing the wheel.
No it's not.

https://www.healthline.com/health/is-urine-sterile

You aren't gonna die from drinking it, but it isn't sterile.
> Meanwhile Boeing and the other old guard were full of jaded "it isn't that easy" types.

That has nothing to do with it. Boeing has been a cost-plus defense contractor for so long managed doesn't know how to do fixed-price work.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/the-surprise-is-not-th...

Back in 2023 Boeing execs even said so: https://www.missouribusinessalert.com/industries/technology/...

Prior to the pandemic and the 737Max debacle, though, Boeing would low-bid fixed-price contracts and eat the losses because their commercial aircraft business would cover it, then make up the difference with continued sales. https://www.defenseone.com/business/2022/04/boeings-low-ball...

The only folks who weren't trying here were senior management, who were unable to do anything that wasn't milking the cost-plus contract cow.
RTF would be fine, then.
Again, liberalism.

If a supermajority opposes free press, it would be undemocratic to force it upon them.
It's free for the open source repos we indexed. No pricing yet.
'translationese' is a pretty common term for it. when you translate, it's really easy to mirror the source structure/syntax even when there's more idiomatic ways to say it in the target language.
I used it in a vm and as an bootable image for updating firmware. Im happy the company i currently work for still uses 10.
Why would you? If you feel the process is worthwhile replicating elsewhere, just use your own words for the couple paragraphs of instructions.
If the leaders do so based on majority opinion, that is democratic.

Too many people - usually Americans - confuse liberal democracy with democracy.

Liberal democracy is a phrase for a reason - and the liberal comes first for a reason!
Amazon deserves zero credit for anything regarding E-mail, because their "order confirmations" don't say WHAT YOU ORDERED.

Mind-bogglingly stupid and annoying.
From everything I'm seeing, it follows that Matlab & Fortran have been decimated by Python and C/C++ around 1990s and 2010s, respectively. Of course I could be wrong; any evidence of their still strong position will be greatly appreciated, doubly so evidence that this position is due to stride issues.

(Of course Python provides wrappers to Fortran code, eg FITPACK, but this code specifically was mostly written in the 80s, with small updates in this century, and is probably used more thru the numpy wrappers, stride conversion issues and all, than thru its native Fortran interface)
Yes. It is used to let us know which HTML elements/features/etc are supported by different browsers/versions
No, it's the FTC doesn't have the authority - this is an easy thing to do federally, just convince congress to ban them... most things should not be decided by the executive.
TLDR This is an article about a new way to measure software engineering productivity. It discusses the challenges of measuring productivity in software engineering. The author proposes a metric called value-add capacity. This metric focuses on the percentage of time engineers spend on activities that directly add value to the customer. The author acknowledges that this metric can be easily cheated. However, he believes it can be useful if used honestly.
You lough but there is some truth behind it. Urine (yiikk) is known for some effects on wound healing and some other things.

(Yiiiiiiiiik)

So, our kidneys filter stuff out of our blood. They make a highly saturated concentrate, that will be diluted by addition of water. Also, the acidicy is regulated by bicarbonate in our body. There's one thing got los over the time:
in the beginning of treatment of kidney failure with dialysis, there have been a strange observation:

One doc wanted to regulate acidicy by supplying bicarbonate intravenously. But the calculations of the needed dosis wekt wrong, so the patient got way toooo much of bicarbonate.

His body reacted with opening of the flood gates - the patient went to the bucket like - he never left it. So drinking urine you get more of the stuff our body wants to get rid of. The more of stuff, the more it wants to get ridden of.
If you’re doing animations in JS, better do it with the Web Animations API since it’s also hardware accelerated.
The number of religious 'nones' has soared, but not the number of atheists. Why?
You can create anonymous accounts with Tuta through Tor and they don't ask for a phone number or contact email address. They even made a tutorial video on YouTube a few weeks ago for how to do it: https://youtu.be/oXv3llPIfvo

If you continued using the account only through Tor, there wouldn't be any traceable info.
This is really cool! I don't have a kobo - though I've been thinking of getting one of the new color ones. This gives me another reason to consider one :-).
Once or twice I have 'translated translations' of Chinese movie subtitles. The basic translation done by a Chinese native who speaks Engkish, with my contribution being to bash the English into shape. I do this in discusiion with the director. I wish more subtitles were done in this way. Rubbish subtitles are endemic in the industry.
https://caniuse.com/ is a popular tool to check what web features are working across different browsers - "can you use this and assume that it will work for others".
My biased opinion that this is Frontend/JS landscape. The amount of tools used to make relatively simple things is staggering. I feel similar things going on in DevOps.
Ask knitters and crocheters if they fly successfully with their tools. Some do, and get remarkably lethal implements on, benignly wrapped in wool.

As a character in Patrick OBrien's Aubrey/Maturin novels says (roughly paraphrased): "half an inch of cold steel will do, if you know how to use it"

But a blade-less swiss army knife could still be interesting, albiet slightly strange. I use the screwdrivers and bottle opener far more often than the blade on mine.
> Unfortunately housing prices are rising so fast that saving for years doesn't necessarily get you there

Where? In many, many highly developed countries this isn't true.

> 1M is close to 500K after taxes

Woah. Where do you live where effective income tax rates are 50% for 1M+? Please don't confuse marginal ("headline") vs effective ("actual") tax rates.
Design docs are great, but Google's writing culture is highly fragmented and quite disjointed. I much prefer Amazon's writing culture (despite hating absolutely everything else about Amazon's culture.)
I thought you're talking about drinking urine.. :)
Proton Mail also still doesn't detect WIKD keys on the other side despite reporting it over 5 years ago.
Unfortunately, I think I'm in that boat. Truly, I appreciate the discourse.

However, whether or not that's what people want, that's the reality. Next time you get a medical charge, even with insurance, ask for an itemized bill. Compare the bill you receive to the one you receive when you tell them "I'm paying with cash". When I pay cash with a third party provider, they "magically" reduce the amount I owe by orders of magnitude, even for simple bloodwork (United States, major metropolitan area).

Again, in good faith, what am I supposed to expect when I hear regulation in animal medicine? People like my partner are studying and training for years to do this work. People are leasing or buying real estate for these facilities.

They are buying equipment, they are hiring trained surgeons, nurses, and practitioners who have been committing at minimum a decade of their life for this - what am I supposed to expect with "calls for regulation" a la human medicine style (the only comparison we have), especially when prices are ACTUALLY competitive, as I believe the human medicine market should be?

I can be convinced of any position, but it has to make sense. What prices or charges, even with private equity-funded veterinary firms, do you consider egregious and need a non-opt-outable mandatory third party oversight for? Has there been a good or a service you feel was only available at a specific provider that they gouged you on? Again, not being aggressive, just genuinely curious.
To be honest I wouldn’t ride a scooter made by Boeing let alone a spaceship, they messed up too much too fast lately.
Are We Talking Too Much About Mental Health?
It doesn't say that. It merely says this thing is like another undescribed thing.

At first I thought it was some kind of service for dog owners, until I noticed the missing N. So... that left no explanation.
RTF was invented in 1987.
That’s not the motte-and-bailey fallacy, that’s simply two different points on a policy spectrum being argued by different parties.
caniuse.com is a website, where developers can check which features are supported by which browser and their versions. It is a immensely useful resource for webdevs.
That because they search using their url bar which is exactly what this article is talking about.

If Apple changed the default search engine all these people you know would instantly just starting using something new.
This is something that I never understood with their "oh you are safe in Switzerland" bs. If the court presents them w/ a warrant they have to comply. There is no magically safe data haven and it isn't honest to pretend that they are one.
You are overlooking the scenario where home prices fall. Yes, your monthly payments will be fixed, but your asset will be falling in value.
No, GP said that hospitals should not be run as a busniess. Non-profit status is just another way to structure a business and, in practice, those hospitals extract a similar amount of money from patients as similar for-profit hospitals.
Show HN: I finally redesigned my portfolio website
Hey I'm Ivo and I'm a Senior Frontend developer.

I had my portfolio for the last few years but there was something wrong with it so last week I took the opportunity to redesign in, it's still work in progress but we are getting there!